Improvement in sewing-machine tables



UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE. l,

HENRY LOTH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,905, dated January 14, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LoTH, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Sewing-Machine Tables, of which the following is a specication:

The object of my invention is to render the case containing the drawers or receptacles ot' a sewing-machine table available as a support for an extension iiap, and this object I attain by combining with the permanent top A, Figure l, of the table, a sliding-case, B, containing a drawer or drawers, or other receptacle, and carrying an extension iiap, D, which hangs down, as shown in Fig. 1, when the table is contracted, but which, on sliding out the said case, can be turned over onto the top of the same, and thus form a continuation ofthe table A, as shown in Fig. 2 ot the accompanying drawing. To the top of the case at the front, as well as at the back of the same, is secured a rod, a, the two rods being arranged to slide in guides on the under side ot' the fixed top A of the table, as shown in the transverse section, Fig. 3, so that the said case can be readily moved in and out. The ap D is connected to the side of the case by it to hang down, as

hinges b, which permit shown in Fig. 1, or to be turned up and onto the top of the case, when the latter is moved out, as shown in Fig. 2.

The case may contain a nest of drawers, as represented in the drawing, or it may contain a single drawer or a simple receptacle, to which access may be had from above, after sliding the case outward, the flap forming the cover for this receptacle; or the sliding case may contain this simple receptacle with a drawer or drawers below the same.

The above-described extension arrangement may be applied to either or `both ends ot' the table. A

I claim as my invention- The combination, substantially as described, of a sliding drawer or other receptacle or case, B, and a iiap, D, hinged to the same, with the txed top of. a sewing-machine table.

In testimony whereof I `have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY LOTH.

Vitnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, HUBERT HowsoN. 

